There are no true friends in politics.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet

I am because my little dog knows me.

Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.

The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.

Persistent work triumphs.